HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – WHNT News 19 continues taking action to find out why the former head of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) was fired by the governor.

We filed three different official Open Records Requests trying to obtain the report the governor used to justify firing Spencer Collier.

The Attorney General’s Office turned us down quickly.

Now, the Governor’s Office has turned us down as well.

The day after losing his job, Collier started dropping bombshells, not only about the governor’s relationship with a senior political advisor, but also claiming the governor told him to lie to a grand jury in the Mike Hubbard case.

The governor fired Collier with a statement, saying an ALEA report found possible misuse of state funds under Collier.

That report should help answer some important questions for the state of Alabama. Did the governor fire Spencer Collier to try to shed a political liability? Or did Spencer Collier throw up a smokescreen to obscure his own misuse of state funds?